P: Well, the hamburger places were scarce too. We only
 had a few restaurants. The only thing we had beside
 the Primrose Grill was the Alachua Cafe. Well, we
 had a few restaurants, but not very many. Today, there
 are more restaurants on thirteenth street than there
 were in the entire town.back then. We, have ten times as
 many restaurants now as we did back then.

 M: Did you live in this home in the '30s?

 P: No. The first three years I lived in the hotel.

 M: At the Commercial?

 P: At the Commercial Hotel. I had a shop down there in the
 back. When I moved to this present location, there was
 a small place in the back, and I lived there. Then I
 got married, and they built a place for me. This guy
 that owned the place built a living room. It was pretty
 nice for those days and times.

M: What year was this?

P: That was in 1927 when they built this. And I stayed there
 until the fire of '33. So, I had to move. At this time,
 I bought a house on Main Street. I still own the lot there.
 Then, when I had the fire I had to move into my house
 because the fellow that was building the new house was
 a friend of mine. Naturally, I wanted to move into my
 house instead of moving into another house. li'had to
 move into something because the building was totally
 destroyed. It guttedzthai inside. I had to go somewhere
 else. So, I just gave notice to this fellow to move out.
 So we stayed there.

M: Was the fire that broke out at your place in 1933, in
 your own room or was it in the whole area?

P: It was in front of the building where we were doing
 business. At that particular time, I wasn't making ice
 cream, and I had this uh, the first Frigidaire with a sixty
 gallon capacity. That one was unique. After the ice, salt,
 and everything like that this was a real joy to have to
 put ice cream in and freeze it. I was selling ice cream